Well at any rate, I’ll review the game that *I* played.

Suikoden 3 is terrible. It is one of the most boring games I’ve played in my life, and I played all the way through it. Up to the very end, I kept telling myself that the game MUST get better (based on the reviews I read). Yep, right up to when they started rolling the credits I promised myself the game would get better.

It didn’t. Elizabeth R. Powell’s review is actually a pretty good description of my experience, though I would disagree with her contention that Hugo’s plotline was worth playing. It wasn’t. The worst part of the game hands are the game triggers (those events that happen when you enter a certain place that “triggers” the game to progress). Some of the game triggers are so random it’s ridiculous. Sometimes, the game doesn’t even tell you what you need to do next (like the chapter you spend recruiting people, and you have to talke to EVERYBODY in ALL the towns you visit). I spent countless wasted hours running from screen to screen trying to figure out how to progress that damn game, baffled because apparently I was supposed to know I to go to some remote corner of the castle to speak with some character I’ve never even met before. How in the world was I supposed to know to do that? And of course the overly high random encounter rate, coupled with the boring terrain and terrible music made the whole experience dreadful.

The story hardly makes up for the game either. In fact, if the game had good gameplay, I’d probably complain about the boring storyline. The uninspiring characters make you think Konami game designers flung darts at a personality chart to come up with their characters.

All in all, not even worth a rental. But I do implore you, if you are the least bit curious about the game based on the other reviews (reviewers bribed by Konami no doubt, CONSPIRACY I tell you), RENT, don’t buy, the game. Don’t worry, I’m sure you won’t mind if you don’t finish it in time.
Rating: 2 / 5

Suikoden 3 is the fourth RPG that I have played for the PS2 which originated on an older system.And like the other three(Wild Arms 3,Legend Of Legia 2 and Final Fantasy X)it [bites] because they change way too much;almost to the point of feeling like an entirely diffrent game instead of a sequal.

I hate to say it,but I think the death of good rpgs is upon us.
Fun and traditonal gameplay is being replaced with eye candy and foreign concepts.I’d rather play good ol’ dragon warrior on the 8bit nintendo than these peices of junk!

I STRONGLY advise lovers of the first two installments of suikoden to rent this game before buying it.
Rating: 1 / 5